Hotel-Train: Revolutionise night trains with a real rolling hotel

By Flavio Bassi

"Hotel-Train" introduces a new concept of night train.

It is fundamentally a design manual. An impressive, extensive invention of this new object: a train that runs regularly every day and is built like a real hotel - a complete, refined, travelling hotel. It is amazing to see how we could travel

• Language: English
• Publisher: Futurbooks
• Release date: Oct 10, 2022
• ISBN: 9788831474139

Flavio Bassi

Engineer, rail traveller, married, with a small son. Applied to both the transport and tourism sectors, he has been imagining innovative types of trains for a long time. One of these, a new type of night train, is presented in this book.

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Cover image by: visualsofdana, Kari Shea, Flavio Bassi

The Reader-Writer Agreement

This work contains a series of innovative ideas, most of them invented by the Author, Flavio Bassi. If you read these ideas, find something that you hadn't thought of, and use it for work, business, research and/or commercial purposes, please feel obliged to contact the Author of this work and to agree with him on a fair remuneration based on the new ideas the Author gave you.

It is not about the law; it is about humanity. It is about the common sense of natural human justice, which comes before law.

In fact, it is not common, not easy, to invent a new object; however, if you use this new object, you could have big gains in some cases.

The Author gives you this book to read, but not to work with. If you work with it please remunerate the Author. If you do not, you go against the common sense of human justice.

And if you start your activity beginning with a natural injustice, what happens? Nothing is certain, but if the beginning is not beautiful, the next activity will be not as good as it could be.

So, if you simply contact the Author and talk about a small percentage of your net gains, you start with the right way. That percentage will be insignificant for your business, it will not slow you down at all. And if you will have no net gains, you will pay nothing.

Looking at the figures, first we need to assign an importance to each stage of the new object; then to define the share of the Reader and the Writer in each stage, based on one's own situation.

The Author, electrical engineer with applications in transport, management, tourism and natural architecture, is available also to further develop the outline project, or to think about other new ideas.

The contact data of the Author are in the Contacts section of this book.

If you disagree about this rule you should not read this work. Thank you!

Index

The Reader-Writer Agreement

Introduction

Should I take the train?

Legend

Part I - The concept

Chapter 1

Internal design

Idea 1.1

Double-deck, double-income

Level 1

Idea 1.2

Double-deck, double-corridor

Level 3

Idea 1.3

A touch of luxury

Level 2

Idea 1.4

A touch of luxury: Top-Of-The-Top-Luxe Suites

Level 2

Idea 1.5

A touch of luxury: Cheap-Luxe Suites

Level 3

Idea 1.6

A touch of luxury: panoramic points

Level 2

Idea 1.7

Real bedroom, real bathroom, real shower

Level 2

Idea 1.8

Real restaurant, real lounge cafè

Level 2

Idea 1.9

Real cinema

Level 3

Idea 1.10

Real Personal Workspace

Level 3

Idea 1.11

Modularity

Level 3

Idea 1.12

Different passenger, different work

Level 3

Idea 1.13

Special luggages, special bicycles

Level 3

Idea 1.14

Special windows

Level 3

Idea 1.15

Special lights

Level 2

Idea 1.16

Special music

Level 3

Idea 1.17

Special materials

Level 3

Idea 1.18

Special perfumes

Level 3

Idea 1.19

Special accessibility

Level 2

Idea 1.20

One hotel, one entrance

Level 3

Idea 1.21

One hotel, many styles

Level 3

Idea 1.22

Natural architecture

Level 3

Chapter 2

On-board services

Idea 2.1

What about... shopping?

Level 3

Idea 2.2

What about... sport?

Level 3

Idea 2.3

What about... learning?

Level 3

Idea 2.4

What about... tourism?

Level 3

Idea 2.5

What about... art?

Level 3

Idea 2.6

What about... showrooms of innovative products?

Level 3

Chapter 3

Off-board services

Idea 3.1

Home-To-Home Luggage Service

Level 1

Idea 3.2

Home-To-HomeStation Luggage Service

Level 3

Idea 3.3

HomeStation-To-Home Luggage Service

Level 3

Idea 3.4

Home-To-Station Luggage Service

Level 3

Idea 3.5

Station-To-Home Luggage Service

Level 3

Idea 3.6

Home-To-Station Transfer Service

Level 3

Idea 3.7

Station-To-Home Transfer Service

Level 3

Idea 3.8

Residential Station Lounge

Level 3

Idea 3.9

Residential Transfer Lounge

Level 3

Chapter 4

Economics

Idea 4.1

Different passenger, different strategy

Level 3

Idea 4.2

Different passenger, infinite fares

Level 3

Idea 4.3

Universal Transport Card

Level 3

Idea 4.4

Universal Transport Card on-board payments

Level 3

Chapter 5

Routes & Timetables

Idea 5.1

Undulatory Paths

Level 3

Idea 5.2

Circular Paths

Level 3

Idea 5.3

Undulatory&Circular Paths

Level 3

Idea 5.4

Low Speed

Level 3

Idea 5.5

Day Use

Level 3

Idea 5.6

Forgotten Stations

Level 3

Idea 5.7

On Demand Stations

Level 3

Idea 5.8

On Demand Routes

Level 3

Idea 5.9

Stable Stations

Level 3

Idea 5.10

Personal Stable Stations

Level 3

Idea 5.11

Railway Cruises

Level 2

Part II - The train

Chapter 6

Layout design

Idea 6.1

Business Carriage

Level 3

Idea 6.2

Art Carriage

Level 3

Idea 6.3

Cinema Carriage

Level 3

Idea 6.4

Academy Carriage

Level 3

Idea 6.5

Sport Carriage

Level 3

Idea 6.6

Shopping Carriage

Level 3

Idea 6.7

Touring Carriage

Level 3

Idea 6.8

Family Carriage

Level 3

Idea 6.9

Bicycle Carriage

Level 3

Idea 6.10

Luxe Carriage

Level 3

Idea 6.11

Cargo Carriage

Level 3

Chapter 7

Experience

Idea 7.1

Available services

Level 3

Idea 7.2

Paid services and free services

Level 3

Idea 7.3

Tickets and services

Level 3

Idea 7.4

The Gift

Level 3

Idea 7.5

Delayed passengers

Level 3

Idea 7.6

Room comparison

Level 3

Idea 7.7

Carriage comparison

Level 3

Idea 7.8

Complete rolling train

Level 3

Chapter 8

Business plan

Idea 8.1

Expected fares

Level 3

Idea 8.2

Comparison with the OBB case

Level 3

Idea 8.3

Replacement Carriages

Level 3

Conclusions

Destiny and Rationality

Contacts

Introduction

In the last 40 years I have almost always travelled by train, ever since I was a child. After about the first 10 I began to observe trains more carefully, asking myself questions: Why are they made this way? Why are they not made that other way?. In fact, this has become a characteristic of mine: when I see something interesting I think if there could be a way to improve it.

Questions overlapped with questions, year after year. School ended, university ended, I became an engineer, then a small business owner, I got married, a wonderful baby has arrived... but the answers were zero. Trains continued to be made as they were in the beginning. There were only minor improvements in important but secondary aspects; the basic substance of the trains always remained the same: carriages with seats. I had different ideas, though.

It was impossible to propose anything to the railway companies: they were mammoth giants, and when a giant goes its own way you cannot interrupt it, you cannot distract it, you cannot talk to it.

At the end I had so many ideas about innovative trains in my head that I couldn't resist. I had to do something.

And here I am. In this book I imagine to collaborate with a new railway company, focused on realising a new concept of night train: European, international, business, one-night-trips-oriented.

Given that trains will be business-oriented, they must contain bedrooms with bathroom and shower, restaurant, cafè, several meeting rooms sized for few seats, one (or more) larger conference room, company says.

The company's aim is to change the world of night trains, offering a new concept of real moving railway hotel; completely different from the old-style night train with sleeping cars.

Since that the company is new, its business plan provides trains composed by all-equal carriages (to compress costs in the first period).

What follows are my proposals in this regard, at a rough, starting project level. They condense everything I had in mind about the new night trains.

Should I take the train?

There are many reasons to say yes, you should.

First of all, thinking about you: the comfort. Train, if well-designed, makes you travel without hassle. You can do what you want - read, write, work, have lunch, dine, rest, sleep, look at the panorama... and many other incredible new activities that we will see in this book. And you're still travelling.

The new Hotel-Train will be designed exactly to allow you to perform these activities and others in maximum comfort, at a level of comfort unimaginable in today's trains.

And as a second fact, thinking about others and the planet: the emissions. Any mode